Yesterday I was told that Disney, the studio that owns Miramax, has officially decided to prohibit our producer, Miramax, from distributing my new film, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” The reason? According to today’s (May 5) New York Times, it might “endanger” millions of dollars of tax breaks Disney receives from the state of Florida because the film will “anger” the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush. The story is on page one of the Times and you can read it here

Yes, in this case their reason is only simple greed (though it’s hard to believe that Jeb would risk the biggest tourist draw in Florida, no matter how mad he was), and the film will most likely end up being distributed in the U.S. by someone else. Does that somehow mean this isn’t wrong? No.